[GET MOMENTUM MasterMind] One idea from you can help someone to become a better presenter

Think about it…

• Delivering the Keynote at an industry conference,
• Updating your team on next years projections in the conference room,

…and even…

• Talking to your spouse about your ideas for weekend/dinner plans.

What do they ALL have in common?

You’re presenting yourself, and influencing others.

If you’ve taken the GET MOMENTUM Self-Assessment (click here) you know where you need to IMPROVE as a presenter.

GET MOMENTUM members, be sure to join the MasterMind group coaching call this week!

On Thursday, May 11th GET MOMENTUM members will share their insights on becoming a better presenter.

Join & share a “lesson-learned.”

Who knows, youcould be the inspiration someone needs to become a better presenter themselves!

STEP 1:

• Open your Momentum Journal to a fresh page.
• On top write, “A Lesson I Learned.”
• Write a few lines describing where you were, the presentation you gave where you learned something and whether it was a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE experience.
• Finally, respond to these 3 questions:

1. What happened?
2. How did it impact you?
3. What was the REAL lesson?

STEP 2:

• Add your MasterMind group coaching call to the calendar.
• Call in for 3-5 minutes and share your experience…and the lesson you learned.

Just think, if you share what you learned (maybe even learned the hard way!) you may help a fellow GET MOMENTUM member avoid that hardship sometime in the future.

That is was the GET MOMENTUM community is all about!

From around the world, GET MOMENTUM members gather once a month in a real-time MasterMind to share ideas with one another.

The theme for our next meeting is: Present Like a Pro

 

Please do STEP 1 of this note because we know sometime this month you’ll have an opportunity to share that lesson with someone you know.

And, we invite MEMBERS to bring their answers to the MasterMind group coaching call on Thursday.

(Not a member? Join today, click here: www.GetMomentum.com/get-momentum. We’re here for you!)

GET MOMENTUM Master Class recap

Around the world, members of the GET MOMENTUM Leadership Academy tuned in to this month's Master Class titled:

"Present Like a Pro"

As you can see in this short introduction video (scroll to the bottom HERE), there are two VERY specific goals for this month's theme:

1. Practice identifying key points in EVERY presentation.
2. Utilize ALL the resources you have access to.

The Master Class is a 45-minute executive summary of the GET MOMENTUM Course Work:

Immediately after the program, I heard from THREE members about the impact and importance of this month's Master Class:

"I get it now, everything is a presentation."

"I learned that I can present the same thing in different ways to different people. Easier."

"I need to video record myself presenting. Not to show anyone else or publish, but to watch and study myself."

(We do have ONE big announcement, read all the way to the bottom to find out!)

Now, some of you may be thinking, "How is 'presenting' a leadership skill?" Think about what you could do, if you were more effective at bringing your ideas to the people you hope use them the most. You're presenting all the time, you are!

+ On a stage in front of dozens

+ In a conference room of just a few 

+ Across the table from your family

+ On the phone with a friend, client or vendor

Over the course of just one month, you'll learn to "win over" the people you're speaking with. You'll practice organizing your main points that are backed up with and by research, as well as have some call-to-action. Finally, you'll practice lining up your message with the facts with the stories with the suggestions that make it easier for people to believe: "Your ideas matter."

Who is GET MOMENTUM for? I always look to our current members to help us answer that question. So, here is a list of the most recent leaders to join:

• The co-founder of a recently-sold communications company in Tennessee.
• 19 Associate Professors at a university in Alabama.
• A designer in Australia.
• 3 recently-promoted Directors in New York City.

Are you a member? If so, log in here and watch the recording (or, download the audio as an MP3 to listen to in your car or while you're exercising). Would you like to see the Table of Contents for the Master Class? Here you are:

• Introduction and Welcome
• Get the Most From Your GET MOMENTUM Membership
• Practice Makes _______ (be careful here!)
• MEMBER Spotlight "Kinds of Presentations"
• Everyone Has a Story
• Jodi's Perspective: "The Energy Flows Through Me."
• 1: The Ingredients of a Presentation
• 2: Resources at Your Fingertips
• 3: Going Beyond the Basics

Not (yet) a GET MOMENTUM member? It's ok, Start Your Membership here, we're ready to serve you as your coaches!

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT:

As a GET MOMENTUM member, you get access to the Video AND Audio recording of the Master Class. Well, NOW you can see we have transcribed and closed captioned the presentation...you'll love it!

Mastery...what is it?

Mastery...what is it?

 

The freedom of wind in your face, sun on your arms and the exhilaration of your own human-power moving you along...

 

Last year I qualified to race in the USA Triathlon National Championships. 

 

Do you remember learning to ride a bike?

 

I don’t. I mean, not really.

 

And, I’m sure I didn’t know what it would take to ride at this competitive level; I do now.

• You don’t ONLY learn to ride a bike from reading about it.
• You don’t ONLY learn by watching a video.
• You don’t ONLY learn by wishing you could…

You learn by doing…

 

Me? I learned by falling; I remember crashing. A lot. In fact, I broke my left arm on my bike. Years later, I crashed in a race and suffered incredible road-rash down the right side of my body.

 

My bike weighs 17 pounds (and I’m just 133!). I ride @21 miles per hour next to vehicles that weigh thousands of pounds, traveling at 40 MPH or more…

 

I continue to learn, I practice, I get coaching and I get better. (AKA: Faster!)

 

How did I become a master of my bike?

I read. I watch videos. I practice. AND, I have two coaches. One writes up the workouts I need to do to continue competing. The other teaches me to be a better bike handler.

 

Did I say, I practice? A lot. Consciously, deliberately and constantly, I practice.

 

ALL ABOUT YOU

 

Look in the mirror today to tell yourself that 25% of 2017 is gone.

 

You have 266 days (that's just about 6400 hours) until 2018.

1. Do you want to get more from your time?
2. Do you want to get more things done?
3. Do you want more time for yourself?
4. Do you want more freedom?

Now is the time to “look in the mirror” and CALL OUT your CURRENT time management strategies as not enough!

If you take the Advanced Time Management self-assessment here, I’ll send you:

 

Your results

 

A summary of your results

 

And, an article titled, “Master Your Lists, Manage Your Focus”

 

You can learn to improve how you manage your time. You COULD read another article. You COULD watch a video. You COULD wish you had more time.

 

Or, you can seek Mastery.

 

I’m here to help. Take the self-assessment here and schedule a 15-minute coaching call. I’ll meet with you, if you’ll meet with me.

 

If you want to be an EXCELLENT time manager, do these 12 things!

EXCELLENT time managers do 12 things.

Now you can learn the 12 things during the online AND in-person executive coaching program we're teaching titled:

Advanced Time Management

Get Momentum members in 10 countries and as many industries will learn to:

• Save time.
• Direct focus.
• Get Things Done.
• Have better work/life balance.

Another Get Momentum theme is ready.

Members, it’s time to visit Get Momentum, sign in and download this month's Course Work.

Excellent time managers do 12 things.

Not 120 things. Not even 60.

Just 12.

Not a Get Momentum member yet?

Would you like to see how you compare?

Take the quiz, if you dare...

Take the Self-Assessment Here

If you take the "Advanced Time Management" self-assessment you will see EXACTLY what to focus on to manage time well.

NOTE: I am going to buy coffee for 5 people who aren't Get Momentum members yet!

Read about it here.

After presenting 500+ GTD (Getting Things Done) seminars, here's what I know

Did you know that I was David Allen's 4th employee? 

I was. 

David hired me in 2000 to present the Getting Things Done seminars. 

Between 2000 and 2006 I presented more than 500 of them. 

AND, did you know that Jodi was employee #1 of David Allen and Company? 

Yeah… between the two of us, we LEARNED - and lived - that Time Management methodology.

Since then, we've learned even MORE... 

QUESTION FOR YOU: 

When you say, "I don't have enough time" what does your brain do? 

The latest research in neuroscience PROVES that you will find answers to the problems you give your brain.

For more than 10 years, Jodi and I have been asking new questions...

...now we teach you how to manage time at a fraction of the cost of what it used to cost! 

Get Momentum is an online AND in person (via phone and video) Executive Coaching leadership development program. 

Starting in less than 5 days... 

You will learn EVERYTHING we know about Advanced Time Management so that:

• You regain 15-60 minutes daily.
• You focus on your Most Important Things every day.
• You model effective AND efficient workflow for those you lead.
• You feel better at the end of the day. 

TIME = BUSINESS ADVANTAGE 

Join GET MOMENTUM, this month and learn how to REGAIN up to an hour a day.

Guaranteed. 

DO you need this?

Take the SELF ASSESSMENT to find out. 

Questions that create change

Recently, I worked with the CEO of an online service provider invoicing his clients +600K per year. Over the course of half-a-day, he problem-solved two separate teams managing through a crisis [server-side coding error] that negatively impacted a client.

When we debriefed at the end of the process, he said that TWO questions made it easier for him to focus in and solve the problem:

Before you go on today, PLEASE these answer TWO questions:

1. "How do you start your day?"
2. "How do you decide you're done at the end of a day?"

I facilitate discussions for leaders (click here) on workplace productivity and performance.

Over and over again, I follow up with EVERY person who emails me for 5 days and I ask the SAME question:

"How did you start your day?"

If they answer that email, I’ll follow it up a few hours later and ask:

“How did how you STARTED your day impact the next few hours?"

Give it a try. Add a question or two to YOUR calendar, and see what happens!

GREAT news about productivity

I've finally got some GREAT news about productivity from The Chicago Tribune! THEN, at the bottom of this email, a Health and Wellness...

...Self Assessment.

According to the article, THIS will "boost your work performance the next day..."

This month's theme at Get Momentum is health and wellness. 

The Get Momentum curriculum is designed to help you become MORE aware...

Aware of what needs your time, energy and focus.

After our Group Coaching Call last week, a few Get Momentum members shared personal AND genuine concerns about their Health and Wellness.

Below, you'll read what SIX members told me:

• “I'm working crazy hours.” (15-20hr/day, every day)
• “I don’t have any support at home” (in making healthier meals or better choices)
• “I never thought about how to make easy good food choices while I’m driving.”
• “I’ve been putting off my doctor visit because I know what he’s going to say…”
• “I’m exhausted.”
• “I never thought about putting my medical notes & documents in Evernote.”

I'm asking you to IMPROVE your health and wellness habits.

Consider focusing on these areas of wellness:

1. Nutrition (what you eat and drink, what's your "fuel"?)
2. Movement (how you exercise, attention to cardio, flexibility & strength)
3. Rest (how well and long you sleep and manage stress)

Look, take 3 minutes to fill out the SELF ASSESSMENT right here.